Erika Ranee, Thought Bubble, 2014, mixed media on canvas, 72 x 72 inches (courtesy of LMAK Gallery)
Jongho Lee reviews Erika Ranee: Gasoline Rainbows at LMAK Gallery, New York, on view through June 5th, 2016.
Lee writes that "each and every single one of Ranee’s paintings are battles. There are battles between restraint and outbursts, abstraction and figurative, against the archival, against painting itself, and finally against herself... Also displayed are Ranee’s physicality in her process of painting, which often include pouring, and dripping by tilting the canvas in various directions, creating a base ground for her paintings, and editing through swiping away big areas at a time, and embellishing through the use of spray paints, tape, and in some cases ... actual plants."
